Felyne Fighters with Flute and Guard Percentage Up Skills is great for distracting the main monster while you destroy it from the back. The best long sword you can get in the early stages of the game is the iron katana, then gather more ore and upgrade it! Got a weapon that is called Iron Katana "Gospel" and until the 1st Blagonga mission it was the only thing i had to use. :)

for some good armour i would suggest conga armour when you're in lvl 2 quests i used that type of armour untill lvl 4 quests when i started to collect items to make basarios armour. also a good comrade skill is health flute as it got me out of pickles (lol) when i would fight wyverns. I would say always gather pokke points as you may get extra items needed for those important weapon upgrades from the farms resourses.My favourite weapon (so far) is the wyvern blade *leaf* which i made by upgrading bone kantana *wolf* over and over again.

I hope this info comes in handy :P
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any tips for a monster hunter player whos getting unite on thursday?
the tips i do know are get iron katana gospel and to get mega demondrug easily just keep doing first kut ku mission to get all items from the elder(soz i dont know area since i dont have it yet :S

once you get level four quests go after the monoblos, when you fight it start with the head to break his horn (this is the only way to get blood red horn from him) nextgo for the tail (you can skin this 2x) then finish him. get his armer and if your a greatsword person you want the helberd and long sword get the monoblos scyth....

and i got a Q? for any one who can answer how do you get your Hr level up?

I've managed to get up to shen gaoren using ceanataur mail (currently lv 50), and the khezu shock sword. But now I'm pretty stuck so need to do a lot of laborious fighting/gathering so I'd recommend getting you're HR up so that you can gather more rare items.

But yeah until now I haven't lost to anything using what I've got so I'd recommend it.